Having trouble finding void opal hotspots!!!

[D.D.Hariman]

The ships aren’t that black and white...

The Viper4 makes an excellent little passenger ship and can move cargo just as well as a Cobra3. The Orca is a passenger ship but it’s awesome for core mining...

Ironically, the ships that should be good at mining, the T6 and T7, aren’t even capable of doing it.

I am considering building an Orca miner..
to replace my AspX miner since I can use my engineered FSD and Power plant from the AspX in the Orca and not need to do more engineering.
I question though if it can move fast enough to target the fissures on one of the fast rotating rocks.

 

[PalmerA]

I am considering building an Orca miner..
to replace my AspX miner since I can use my engineered FSD and Power plant from the AspX in the Orca and not need to do more engineering.
I question though if it can move fast enough to target the fissures on one of the fast rotating rocks.

You can. But if you are going orca. Might aswell go type 9. More space. Same manu. And similar price. Fsd will suffer.

I still like my aspx. Plenty of cargo. And JR is still good. And you will always get interdicted. So more manu is better than none.

 

[D.D.Hariman]

You can. But if you are going orca. Might aswell go type 9. More space. Same manu. And similar price. Fsd will suffer.

I still like my aspx. Plenty of cargo. And JR is still good. And you will always get interdicted. So more manu is better than none.

FSD in the T9 suffers too much. I like my AspX but I want more cargo. Looking at it, the Orca really only gets 34 tons more so I am not sure it is worth the trouble to build it.
OTH.. this -->> https://coriolis.io/outfit/python?c...SAAAAA==.EweloBhBmUDYAsICmBDA5gG2SEBGCQkKEoA= <<-- looks very promising. FSD starts to hurt when full loaded, but the full loaded mass (the more mass your ship has, the harder it is for the interdicting ship to drag you off the escape vector) combined with the decent agility should still make it hard to interdict.
By reusing almost everything from my AspX I can keep the cost down.

 

[PalmerA]

FSD in the T9 suffers too much. I like my AspX but I want more cargo. Looking at it, the Orca really only gets 34 tons more so I am not sure it is worth the trouble to build it.
OTH.. this -->> https://coriolis.io/outfit/python?code=A0pftnFflidsssf5--3M3O3R--2x-0505051v37C040C0242i.Iw18RQ==.Aw18RQ==.H4sIAAAAAAAAA2P8Z8/AwPCXGUj8qQcSHHdYGRj4VX79/y+mwcXA8J/5nxRInhUkX8EAlRLawc3AIFIjysAgAVL+/z8DAwCLbM2pSAAAAA==.EweloBhBmUDYAsICmBDA5gG2SEBGCQkKEoA= <<-- looks very promising. FSD starts to hurt when full loaded, but the full loaded mass (the more mass your ship has, the harder it is for the interdicting ship to drag you off the escape vector) combined with the decent agility should still make it hard to interdict.
By reusing almost everything from my AspX I can keep the cost down.

It looks like a sharp build. It will work. However. If you are going for the top end price. Means more travel times. More times getting interdicted more often. And with a full load yes you are looking at a easy 350mil. Maybe even more if you get lucky.

At which point a T9 will actually suffer more. I have friends running both. He says he wishes he never traded in his aspx over more cargo space. And he said his T9 is overkill. He flies a cutter and clipper now for everything. Even has several of them outfitted for every role in the game. But hey thats what void opal mining can do...

With that said. 70+ cargo is great. 140mil for getting ed at my own mistakes and failed motherloads. Is still rewarding. It paid for my aspx. Which as you know is cheap. My T9 for when i do long huals with friends. And my phantom for when i go to explore the stars.

 

[D.D.Hariman]

It looks like a sharp build. It will work. However. If you are going for the top end price. Means more travel times. More times getting interdicted more often. And with a full load yes you are looking at a easy 350mil. Maybe even more if you get lucky.

With that said. 70+ cargo is great. 140mil for getting ed at my own mistakes and failed motherloads. Is still rewarding. It paid for my aspx. Which as you know is cheap. My T9 for when i do long huals with friends. And my phantom for when i go to explore the stars.

Well, since I am mining in an NPC free system about 165 ly from New Yembo, which INARA consistently shows as either #1 or #2 for selling price for LTD's, Alexaderite, and Granderite, my travel time is not that bad.
I have not been successfully interdicted in so long I have forgotten the last time it happened. I have a tried and true techniques that prevent it. As soon as the message threat comes up in the comm screen, set the slowest speed I can without actually stopping.
That forces the punk to get very close to me to interdict me so the "tether" is shorter.
It makes the area of the cone he can work in to try to drag me off the vector as small as possible.
According to Newton --- A more massive object has more inertia than a less massive object. Fast-moving objects have more inertia than slow-moving objects. An object would not have any inertia in a gravity-free environment (if there is such a place). Inertia is the tendency of all objects to resist motion and ultimately stop. So, reducing speed should also reduce the inertia the interdicting ship has available to use to try and drag me around.

If the message comes in while I am scooping or just as I exit hyperspace, I slow to just moving and point my astern to the star. Invariably the punk will crash into the star trying to get behind me. No interdiction actually initiated.

 

[Ambushlizard30]

If you are willing to leave the bubble and come to Colonia, there is a ton of Void's, and Low Temp Diamonds... best pull I have had is just over 50 Mil per hour in the Krait...

 

[D.D.Hariman]

If you are willing to leave the bubble and come to Colonia, there is a ton of Void's, and Low Temp Diamonds... best pull I have had is just over 50 Mil per hour in the Krait...

I fly two ships in a wing in PG on side by side computers. Their combined cargo space plus bins is 144 tonnes. I just sold 92 tonnes of LTD's collected about 165 ly from New Yembo in a system where I have never yet seen an NPC pirate.
I have also found VO, Granderite, Alexanderite but the primary hotspots in the system are for LTD.
The twin Pythons will have combined space for 400 tonnes.
I think I will stay where I am.

 

[PalmerA]

If you are willing to leave the bubble and come to Colonia, there is a ton of Void's, and Low Temp Diamonds... best pull I have had is just over 50 Mil per hour in the Krait...

Thats quite the trip from the bubble. Sale prices for VOs in the bubble is 1.9. Same as out in Colonia. Flying the highway to get there in a krait will take a good 30+ minutes. Dont fly the highway and than you are talking hrs... 50mil a hr is a good haul. But time and effort to get there is alot. And there are limited opportunities out there at the moment.

Not my cup of tea at the moment. Besides. There are just as rewarding spots local to where im at. 150mil every 3 hrs is just the same as yours.

 

[Ambushlizard30]

Thats quite the trip from the bubble. Sale prices for VOs in the bubble is 1.9. Same as out in Colonia. Flying the highway to get there in a krait will take a good 30+ minutes. Dont fly the highway and than you are talking hrs... 50mil a hr is a good haul. But time and effort to get there is alot. And there are limited opportunities out there at the moment.

Not my cup of tea at the moment. Besides. There are just as rewarding spots local to where im at. 150mil every 3 hrs is just the same as yours.

Very true..

 

[D.D.Hariman]

Well, Definitively staying where I am now. COL 395 SECTOR OM-A B2-7. Multiple hot spots for everything except Musgravite plus Painite, Platinum and Bromolite if you need some of that.
No NPC pirates either.
Really hate the view out the front of the Python for looking at rocks so I have made this VA routine to use the external camera.

Rock search macro 2019-06-24 21-18-10.mov

drive.google.com

Enjoy

 

[tafkabb]

I love the Python canopy

It's hands down the best ship for mining. Good view, excellent hardpoint placement, no drift, pretty good jump range, fantastic internals

 

[Northpin]

Really hate the view out the front of the Python for looking at rocks so I have made this VA routine to use the external camera.

Rock search macro 2019-06-24 21-18-10.mov

drive.google.com

Enjoy

May i suggest that you fly inverted when you use the pulse? I mean rotate the ship 180 and have the asteroids above you, that is in the upper half of your cockpit canopy - where you can actually see them.
As seen in the movie, you are keeping the asteroid belt below you where it is obscured by the cockpit

 

[D.D.Hariman]

May i suggest that you fly inverted when you use the pulse? I mean rotate the ship 180 and have the asteroids above you, that is in the upper half of your cockpit canopy - where you can actually see them.
As seen in the movie, you are keeping the asteroid belt below you where it is obscured by the cockpit

Tried that. Maybe I got spoiled by spending so much time in the AspX using the headlook to look up at the rock field. Doesn't work nearly as well in the Python.

 

[PalmerA]

Tried that. Maybe I got spoiled by spending so much time in the AspX using the headlook to look up at the rock field. Doesn't work nearly as well in the Python.

Yeah. Python is a great all round ship. Not the greatest cockpit. But it can do everything. And yes when we get used to the views of a aspx and even kraits. We kinda need to learn new tricks and tips on how to better see out the python.

Makes me wonder why some ships lack cockpit design and others are over engineered.

 

[D.D.Hariman]

Yeah. Python is a great all round ship. Not the greatest cockpit. But it can do everything. And yes when we get used to the views of a aspx and even kraits. We kinda need to learn new tricks and tips on how to better see out the python.

Makes me wonder why some ships lack cockpit design and others are over engineered.

At present I think it is the worst I have been in yet. Nearly impossible to scoop stuff with that flashing red rhomboid superimposed over the top of the scoop camera.
My better trick is to use that external camera routine to do the spotting, then send the other ship to do the close inspection. If the shape and color look right, bring the spotter ship in for a look and if it still has the right color, prospect it.

 

[Northpin]

In Python it is impossible to scoop if you have hardpoints deployed and a weapon hanging out right in front of the cargo bay door
Retract the weapons and it scoops nicely

 

[PalmerA]

At present I think it is the worst I have been in yet. Nearly impossible to scoop stuff with that flashing red rhomboid superimposed over the top of the scoop camera.
My better trick is to use that external camera routine to do the spotting, then send the other ship to do the close inspection. If the shape and color look right, bring the spotter ship in for a look and if it still has the right color, prospect it.

Try the conda than haha.

Yes scooping in ships more designed for combat and less for retrieval operations can certainly make it hard to collect.

But when you are mining. You bring collector limpets. I always disliked cargo scooping.

 

[D.D.Hariman]

In Python it is impossible to scoop if you have hardpoints deployed and a weapon hanging out right in front of the cargo bay door
Retract the weapons and it scoops nicely

The seismic charge launcher isn't very big so it doesn't seem to get in the way. I would imagine that a C3 cannon or such would though. My issue is the flashing red rhomboid that is warning of collision. NS!!! I am trying to "collide" with that fragment you twit!!

 

[D.D.Hariman]

Try the conda than haha.

Yes scooping in ships more designed for combat and less for retrieval operations can certainly make it hard to collect.

But when you are mining. You bring collector limpets. I always disliked cargo scooping.

I hate to waste a limpet for just 1 or 2 fragments. Especially those that get teleported out of the ring when I blast them off.

 

[PalmerA]

I hate to waste a limpet for just 1 or 2 fragments. Especially those that get teleported out of the ring when I blast them off.

There is a trick to that my friend. I use to be the same way. Low level limpets last up to 3 minutes upon deployment. As long as you dont give a target to a limpet, it will run to the time period picking everything up that isnt on you ignore list. Just im a cheap loser. This is what i run. I deploy one limpet AFTER i hit my charges. And it picks up all the fragments with plenty of time to spare.

You will find yourself jettisoning them. So dont over do it. Fill cargo to 30% and you will be laughing.